Join MOAD and Susan Lee-Chun at MDC’s Padr\u00f3n Campus for a reception celebrating Susan Lee-Chun: Everybody Suz-ercise!<\/p>\n
Part of the larger project Everybody Suz-ercise! this humorous and engaging body of work by artist Susan Lee-Chun (b. 1976, Seoul) transforms an art gallery into a gym space. It includes a video art series, photographs from her performances, and an uncanny installation. Together, this presentation of Lee-Chun\u2019s work explores exercise culture, gender norms, and the racialized beauty industry.<\/p>\n
Suzercise (mirrored symmetry, composition #1) doubles benches, weights, and other gym equipment in a carefully symmetrical arrangement, creating an uncanny, almost stage-like setting that feels both real and familiar, artificial and strange. The mirrored layout suggests reflection, evoking the ways in which cultural identities are replicated and reflected back to us as branded alter egos. Her video series, Let\u2019s Suz-ercise Chicago-style!, documents a performance from 2009 inspired by aerobic exercise VHS tapes.<\/p>\n
Lee-Chun is known for adopting a series of alter egos\u2014Sue, Sioux, and Su\u2014that embody shifting cultural and social personas, from mainstream assimilation to perceived \u201cotherness.\u201d Through these characters, she playfully unsettles expectations about authenticity and belonging, using humor and commercial aesthetics to draw viewers in through familiarity, only to subvert those expectations. By turning an everyday site of training into a space of critical reflection, Lee Chun exposes how beauty, fitness, and cultural symbols are packaged for consumption\u2014inviting viewers to question where the line between perception and reality, artifice and authenticity, truly lies.<\/p>\n
Based in Miami, Florida, Susan Lee-Chun has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Her work, while humorous and playful, challenges culture, stereotype and representation.<\/p>\n
Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artist and enjoy the exhibition, conversation, and refreshments. Museum staff will be available to answer questions about the exhibition.<\/p>\n
This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
Free parking is available at MDC’s Padr\u00f3n Campus flat parking lot located at 2501 SW 6TH Street, Miami, FL 33135.<\/p>\n
Image: Susan Lee-Chun Everybody Suz-ercise! Photo by Oriol Tarridas, March 19, 2026.<\/p>\n
The Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at MDC may document the event, including its attendees. By entering the area, and\/or participating in the event, you consent to the recording and its use in any form.<\/p>\n
MOAD’s programs are made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. They are sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture, and with generous support from John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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